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ABSTRACT AT the meeting of the Geographical Society on Monday evening, the Earl of Northbrook announced, amidst great applause, that Colonel Gordon had been elected an Honorary Corresponding

Member, and at the same time passed, a high eulogium on his character and his services in Egypt and elsewhere. Major-Gen. Sir M. A. S. Biddulph, K.C.B., who commanded a column in the last

Afghan campaign, afterwards read a paper on the eastern border of Pishin and the basin of the Loras. The country dealt with had never previously been examined by Europeans, all our

information having been derived from native sources, and consequently the particulars so laboriously collected by Sir M. Biddulph, with the aid of the survey officers acting under him, will

prove of the utmost value to cartographers. He mentioned several instances in which our present maps are entirely wrong, specifying one in which the position of a place would have to be

shifted fifty miles. A peculiar characteristic of the country examined was the existence of long plains in the valleys, which rendered movement comparatively easy, another being the great

number of water-partings. The basin of the Loras,—a name given to all streams in that region,—consists, in fact, of a curiously involved system of mountain ridges, about which Sir M.

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